THE GREAT DISTRACTION
Cynical
David Cameron is burying bad news under Royal engagement
DAVID Cameron didn’t so much pick a good day to bury bad news as sit behind the controls of a JCB and entomb a personal humiliation under the Royal wedding. Dodgy Dave’s cynicism never ceases to surprise even a ConDem sceptic like me. The spirit of Jo...FULL ARTICLE AT MIRROR.CO.UK
Cynical
David Cameron is burying bad news under Royal engagement
DAVID Cameron didn’t so much pick a good day to bury bad news as sit behind the controls of a JCB and entomb a personal humiliation under the Royal wedding. Dodgy Dave’s cynicism never ceases to surprise even a ConDem sceptic like me. The spirit of Jo...FULL ARTICLE AT MIRROR.CO.UK
Cynical David Cameron is burying bad news under Royal engagement
Kevin Maguire, Daily Mirror 17/11/2010
DAVID Cameron didn’t so much pick a good day to bury bad news as sit behind the controls of a JCB and entomb a personal humiliation under the Royal wedding.
Dodgy Dave’s cynicism never ceases to surprise even a ConDem sceptic like me.
The spirit of Jo Moore, a Blairite adviser who disgustingly thought 9/11 a smokescreen to obscure any fall-out from raising councillors’ expenses, evidently lives on.
I sniffed a rat when the usually cagey Downing Street started ringing round newspapers to reveal the shutter had come down on vanity snapper Andy Parsons’ career on the public payroll.
Requiring taxpayers to fund his personal snapper in the Court of King Cameron was a monumental error by the Prime Minister, a Tory toff who failed to curb his sense of entitlement.
Once a PR man, always a PR man, and the spindoctor PM will have known his U-turn would be overshadowed by the announcement of a future King’s engagement.
No 10 flunkeys shouting it was a coincidence should save their breath or call naive idiots unable to take the top off a pen.
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown pulled a few stunts in their time. And Labour would’ve been rightly crucified for hiding the cameraman bad news, not to mention Guantanamo Bay compensation, behind royal good news.
But I know from those who worked in No 10 how the establishment works and it’s inconceivable Cameron’s courtiers didn’t know of the engagement in advance.
So anyone in Downing Street who thinks they’re in Cameron’s inner circle but weren’t in the loop should be hunting for a new job.
The wedding’s a double-edged sword for the ConDem austerity coalition.
Cameron will hope for a fairy tale diversion.
Yet pomp and ceremony for a privileged couple may generate resentment amid tax rises, job losses, benefit cuts and destroyed services.
We’re not all in this together and never have been.
That shouldn’t stop Kate Middleton, of course, saving herself a few bob by buying the dress before January’s VAT hike.
I’ve noticed Cameron’s slyly stopped talking about Broken Britain.
The description of a smashed country was quietly dropped by the PM as his policies break Britain.
Instead he poses as an upmarket Ken Dodd, vowing to make us all happy.
I’ll resist advising Cameron where to put his tickling stick.
But he’s miscalculating if the nuptials will send the Happiness Index soaring.
Redundant coppers and nurses enduring a pay freeze will quickly forget a single day off to gawp at the telly.
Cameron’s cynicism yesterday exposed an unpleasant, ruthless streak.
The PM showed himself to be a machine politician.
The new politics is empty spin.
Get more from Kevin Maguire on his blog at blogs.mirror.co.uk/maguire.
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How happy are you? Cameron wants to know... to include figures in national statistics. I did try to put my entry (below) on the Daily Mail Blog, but they didn't use it!!!! Can't think why! Anyway you will have to "suffer" now. Here is my entry with apologies to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black,
Take that look off your face.
I can see through your smile.
You would love to be right.
I bet you didn't sleep good last night,
Couldn't wait to bring all of that bad news to your door.
Well, I've got news for you: I knew before.
If I'm not mistaken, I know when it came,
In fact I can name the very day.
When we started to plan the future and all,
I just wish you would go away.
No, I will not dig deep.
I do not want to know.
Well, you do interfere
When you're scared of the things you might hear.
But you really should go now,
Right now would be fine.
Well, my hard bitten friend,
I am not you.
Take that look off your face!
Why are you feeling bue?
You keep getting it wrong.
I bet you're not singing the right song,
Couldn't wait to bring all of that bad news to your door.
Well, I've got news for you
I knew before.
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